MCQ Bank
Which type of study focuses on remote location?
- A) Fieldwork
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Laws are enforceable by _____________.
- A) Group pressure
- B) Threat of punishment
- C) Peer pressure
- D) Ostracism
Judging other culture on the basis of one’s own culture is known as ____
- A) Ethnocentrism
- B)
- C)
- D)
Which one of the following represents the significance of feasting in chiefdoms?
- A) It is mean of political control and redistribution
- B) It is purely a religious ritual
- C) It only involves the lower social classes
- D) It weakens the authority of the chief
Horticulture is a form of food production which employs:
- A) Simple tools and no draft animals
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Acculturation occurs due to sustained contact between:
- A) Two cultures with equal power dynamics
- B) A culture and its natural environment
- C) A culture and external influences
- D) Two cultures, one dominant and one subordinate
Which language do not have singular and plural nouns?
- A) Navaho
- B)
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- D)
A smartphone designed in the U.S. but modified for Chinese consumers with different apps illustrates which aspect of diffusion?
- A) Selectivity
- B) Innovation
- C) Modification
- D) Reciprocity
Which one of the following is a technical term used by anthropologists to describe exchange of goods and services of almost equal value between two trading partners
- A) Reciprocity
- B)
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A system of stratification where positions are partly achieved and social mobility is common is known as:
- A) Status
- B) Class
- C) Slavery
- D) Caste
Which one of the following is a subsistence pattern in which people make their living by tending herds of large animals?
- A) Pastoralism
- B)
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- D)
What does "environmental cost" refer to in globalization?
- A) The expansion of forests
- B) The negative impact on land, water, and air
- C) The rise in global wealth
- D) The improvement of ecosystems
Which one of the following technique is required to provide solid methodological base emphasizing the need for empirical evidence
- A) Direct fieldwork
- B)
- C)
- D)
Margaret Mead found _____________ girls were much less rebellious or emotional turmoil than those in western societies.
- A) Samoan
- B) Neur
- C) Kung
- D) Inuit
The analysis of cultural data at a single point in time is referred as:
- A) Synchronic analysis
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- D)
Who among the following proposed three common types of personalities around the world?
- A) David Riesman
- B) Margaret Mead
- C) Karl Marx
- D) Lewis Henry Morgan
A person who is related to both their mother's kin and their father's kin at the same time can fall under:
- A) Bilateral descent or Parallel; decent
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The main reason people resist cultural change is:
- A) Desire for stability
- B) Unpredictable outcomes
- C) Lack of resources
- D) Fear of the unknown
Societies based on mechanical solidarity have all the characteristics EXCEPT:
- A) High Specialization
- B)
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- D)
Which of the following theory focused on the view that small-scale farmers in arid or semi-arid areas also voluntarily merged into larger political entities?
- A) Voluntaristic State Formation
- B) Social change theory
- C) Hydraulic Theory of State Formation
- D) Coercive Theory of State Formation